Speakers

Sotiris Sideris

Data Editor, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ) / Reporters United

Sotiris Sideris is the Data Editor at CCIJ and Reporters United. He is an award-winning data journalist, trainer, and lecturer based in Athens with extensive cross-border and collaborative experience. He also serves as a lecturer of digital media at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and as a research associate in the NTLab at the University of Athens. Previously, he worked with the Greek NGO Network for Children’s Rights as the coordinator and chief editor of the multilingual newspaper Migratory Birds, and as a researcher and producer for the Greek national TV documentary series 28 Europe.

His work has been published in numerous Greek and international publications, including Investigate Europe, Mediapart, Tagesspiegel, Daily Maverick, and Premium Times. In 2017, he was a Stavros Niarchos Foundation fellow at Columbia University’s Lede program, where he studied programming and data journalism. In 2019 he participated in the Bertha Challenge, a global fellowship program for investigative journalists and activists by Bertha Foundation.